Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Ambassador Kriangsak Kittichaisaree, LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D.
Before coming to Canberra, Ambassador Kriangsak was Thailand’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Islamic Republic of Iran from 1 October 2007-December 2009.
After graduating in law from universities in the UK, the USA, and again the UK, on a full scholarship from the Royal Thai Government, Kriangsak joined the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Oct. 1986 as a legal officer at the Division of Legal Affairs.
From Dec. 1994 to Jan. 1999, Kriangsak was Minister-Counsellor at the Royal Thai Embassy in Washington, D.C., overseeing economic, political, and consular affairs.
From Feb. 1999-March 2002, he was Director of the Division of Legal Affairs, and from March 2002-Nov. 2004, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Treaties and Legal Affairs in the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
From 18 November 2004 to 2 March 2006, he was Ambassador Attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand responsible for international legal issues, counter-international terrorism, and was the Chief Legal Counsel and Head of the Investment Chapter team of the Thai Delegation negotiating with New Zealand on the Closer Economic Partnership Agreement (in 2004) and with the Members of the European Free Trade Area (EFTA, i.e., Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland) on the Thai-EFTA Free Trade Area Agreement (in 2005-2006). In this ambassadorial position also, the Ambassador was the Coordinator of the International Legal Cooperation against Terrorism stream of the Legal Issues Working Group (LIWG) of the Bali Regional Ministerial Meeting on Counter-Terrorism (BRMCT), open to countries from Asia, North America, Europe and the Oceania and international organizations that participated in the BRMCT on 4-7 February 2004 and/or the LIWG Meeting in August 2004, in response to the Bali Bombing of 12 October 2002 and subsequent terrorist activities in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. (These countries were: the 10 ASEAN Member States, Australia, Canada, China, Fiji, Germany, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Russian Federation, Timor Leste, and the USA. The UN Counter Terrorism Committee, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, and the Southeast Asia Regional Centre for Counter-Terrorism also participated.)
He served as Director-General of the Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, from 3 March 2006-30 September 2007, in charge of the law and constitution of international institutions, international human rights and the rule of law, transnational organized crimes, and the workings of global economic and political institutions in all aspects including arms control and disarmament, international security under the UN framework, and UN reform. He was concurrently Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Thailand to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).
The Ambassador teaches part-time, as a Visiting Professor, at the University of New South Wales School of Law in Sydney, Australia (since January 1999), and at the National University of Singapore in 2006 and 2009. He also taught at Duke University School of Law’s Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law in July 2000 (Course: The World Trade Organization: The Adjudication of International Trade Disputes), and July 2004 (Course: Global Commerce and Freedom of the Seas).
At the end of July 2008, when Thailand did not have a Foreign Minister, the Prime Minister of Thailand appointed Kriangsak Special Envoy of the Royal Thai Government to attend the 15th Ministerial Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which was the annual meeting of 118 NAM member countries at the foreign minister level.
International Diplomatic Conferences and Negotiations Attended
Conferences/Workshops/Seminars (Select)
Kriangsak’s biography is featured in both Marquis Who’s Who in the World (since 2003) and Who’s Who in Public International Law (Grotius: Cambridge, 2007).
He is interested in getting in touch with other alumni of Harvard University and Cambridge University living in Australia.
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Past Ambassadors
- ฯพณฯ นายกนต์๊ธีร์ ศุภมงคล (2499 - 2502)
H.E. Mr Konthi Suphamongkhon (1956 - 1959) - ฯพณฯ นายวัฒนา อิศรภักดี (2502 - 2507)
H.E. Mr Vadhana Isaraphakdi (1959 - 1964) - ฯพณฯ พลตำรวจตรี ชาญ อังศุโชติ (2507 - 2509)
H.E. Major General Chan Angsuchote (1964 - 1966) - ฯพณฯ นายประสงค์ บุญเจิม (2510 - 2514)
H.E. Mr Prasong Bunchoem (1967 - 1971) - ฯพณฯ นายวิวรรธน์ ณ ป้อมเพชร์ (2514 - 2519)
H.E. Mr Vivadh Na Pom Bejra (1971 - 1976) - ฯพณฯ นายวิเชษฐ์ สุทธยาคม (2520 - 2522)
H.E. Mr Vichet Suthayakhom (1977 - 1979) - ฯพณฯ นายผดุง ปัทมะสังข์ (2523 - 2526)
H.E. Mr Padung Padamasankh (1980 - 1983) - ฯพณฯ นายเจตน์ สุจริตกุล (2527 - 2531)
H.E. Mr Jetn Sucharitkul (1984 - 1988) - ฯพณฯ นายชวาลย์ ชวณิชย์ (2531 - 2534)
H.E. Mr Chawan Chawanid (1988 - 1991) - ฯพณฯ นายรองเพ็ชร สุจริตกุล (2534 - 2537)
H.E. Mr Rongpet Sucharitkul (1991 - 1994) - ฯพณฯ นางลักษณจันทร เลาหพันธุ์ (2538 - 2543)
H.E. Mrs Laxanachantorn Laohaphan (1995 - 2000) - ฯพณฯ นายสวนิต คงศิริ (2543 - 2545)
H.E. Mr Sawanit Kongsiri (2000 - 2002) - ฯพณฯ นางสาวสุจิตรา หิรัญพฤกษ์ (2546 - 2549)
H.E. Ms Suchitra Hiranprueck (2003 - 2006) - ฯพณฯ นายบัณฑิต โสตถิพลาฤทธิ์ (2549 - 2552)
H.E. Mr Bandhit Sotipalalit (2006 - 2009)